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Re: Doyle-Info request on some Jeff. Co. units

Linda

It sort of personal with me because my gg grandfather was a private in Company "B" 2nd Arkansas Batt. On eof the little known unheard of units from the state of Arkansas. One of the Strange things is that when this batt was disbanded and consolidated with the 3rd Arkansas Inf. the order listed the name of every man in the batt. Which meant a lot of handwritting of all those names to make all the copies of that order for all the different commanders who had to read it.

In 1861 there were no medals to be given, but the Confederate Army did practise the old english traditions that it was a mark of honor for a soldiers name to be mentioned in dispatches or orders. Makes you wonder why they handwrote over 130 odd names in so many necessary copies of such orders? It could have been just a simple transfer order, but to me that was an awful lot of unnecessary names to be hand coping to each order informing each commander from Captain to General that would be involved in that Consolidation order.

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